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QUESTIONS ON TEST PAPERS. 



i. Who is responsible for close Braille ? 

2. Where and by whom was the apparatus for embossing 
it constructed ? 

3. Did any members of the Uniform Type Committee know 
of it, or take any part in bringing it forward ? 

4. As reduction of the Braille scale and exaggeration of the 
New York Point scale have the same effect, is the close Braille 
complementary to the exaggerated New York Point ? 

5. What part of such test papers was selected from books, 
and if so, what books ? 

6. Was the whole or any part of the test papers specially 
made for this purpose ? 

7. Total number of words in the word list. 

8. Number and per cent, of monosyllables. 

9. Number and per cent, of dissyllables. 

10. Number and per cent, of trisyllables. 

11. Number and per cent, of words of more than three 
syllables. 

12. Would short words favor any system, and if so, which ? 

13. The normal proportion of the first ten letters of the 
alphabet in common English, a to j inclusive, is about 45 per 






cent. Does the number of these letters in the word tests 
exceed this proportion ? 

14. The normal proportion of the letters, a, e, 1, s and t, in 
common English is about 39 per cent. Does the number of 
these letters in the word tests exceed this proportion ? 

15. Is the proportion of each of these letters in the tests 
normal ? 

16. Is the proportion of each letter other than a, e, 1, s and t 
normal ? 

17. Does the report on tests made give any data on these 
matters ? 

18. Would a small relative proportion of short words arranged 
in regular columns, separated by a marked space, facilitate read- 
ing in Braille ? 

19. Were the tests made at Batavia and at Perkins in reading 
letters having a large or small number of points, and other 
tests for reading signs, also made at other schools ? If so, 
what schools and with what results ? 

20. What were these tests and what was the actual record in 
number of minutes and in number of errors on which the 13.4 
per cent, for time and 9.3 per cent, for errors in one case, and 
9.6 per cent, for time and 16.3 per cent, for errors in the other, 
were based ? (See the Valentin Haiiy for May, 19 13.) 

21. During the recent tests at the New York school, demon- 
strations were given at the request of the agents in reading 
German, in writing and reading literary texts, and in reading 
music. Have similar demonstrations been made in other 
schools ? 



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22. After the New York test, what change, if any, was made 
in the test material ? 

23. Does the report note the fact that an experienced proof 
reader furnished the agents with a statement to the effect that 
from 25 per cent, to 30 per cent, more matter could be covered 
in the same time in proof-reading New York Point than in 
Braille ? 

24. Why did not the tests include reading and writing music, 
in languages other than English, and in the adaptation of the 
systems to mathematical work ? 

25. In reading, are letters other than those in question 
charged with their due proportion of elapsed time ? 



